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"Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds."

"Only later, much later, too late, did I understand how small she (Mrs Winterson) was to herself. The baby nobody picked up. The uncarried child still inside her."

"Scent is the strongest tie to memory."

"The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before."
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"It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working."


"Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again."


"At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in."


"Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome."


"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."


"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."
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